Gateways for Import-Export

The discussion above applies when the PM3 Milestone Plan has no gateways. If the plan does have gateways, then special notes apply: Export from PM3 will include Gateways in the xml project file as usual. o These can be viewed in the export file as usual using MS-Project. However, when importing an xml file which contains Gateways, (from a previous PM3 export) then by default, the Gateways workstream is ignored during the import. This is because the plan already has Gateways in it and they are controlled by the selected GatewaySet. They cannot be overwritten by any import (or even manually edited - apart from some dates). You can override this import behaviour (i.e. you can force Gateway milestones in the import file to appear in PM3) using MS-Project, o open the Gateway Workstream, (Summary Task) and click the Notes tab. There you will see an entry [$isgatewaywks=Y$] o Simply change the Y to N. Also change the Gateway Workstream Name in MS-Project o Save the MS-Project file as xml as usual. Then when you import the xml file, the Gateways will be imported into a new non-gateway workstream (leaving the existing Gateway workstream and gateways in PM3 unaffected). If there is a dependency between a Gateway milestone and a non-Gateway milestone in PM3, then if you export to MS-Project and then re-import to PM3 o If gateways were force-loaded into a new non-gateway workstream (as above), ▪ then the dependency will appear and will point to the milestone in the new workstream not in the Gateway workstream Otherwise, the dependency will not appear. Help Videos Help videos are available under Help > PM3Learn (? Icon at the top right of PM3 pages).